Should Commercial Software Companies Create A Captive Or Outsource?
Should commercial software companies create a captive organization or outsource that work to an offshore provider? Sean Walsh of Symphony Services crunched the numbers and came up with an answer.
Convergys Study: Companies Don't Have Workforce Agility and It's Costing Them Plenty
A Convergys-sponsored study on workforce agility discovered many companies are overspending as much as 10 percent through things like excessive headcount and inappropriate training. And they could add another 10 percent to the bottom line if they hired the right people. Bonnie Tichman explains.
Going for the Gold: What it Takes to Really Win in Outsourcing
Concluding our five-part series on what causes outsourcing arrangements to fail, we look at the picture from the opposite corner--the keys to success--with advice from 68 buyers and providers that achieved even more value outcomes and higher ROI than they anticipated at the outset.
HR Outsourcing Helps Energy Companies Compete in Deregulated World
The difficulties of deregulation have caused electric utilities to focus once again on their core task: keeping the lights on. A new Conference Board study sheds some light on how HR outsourcing is reducing costs and providing the time to focus on strategy.
Reaping What They Sowed in Outsourcing
Effective communication is crucial to success in outsourcing, but it seldom happens automatically between two different corporate cultures. This is the story of how Sears and Hewitt Associates established change management techniques to ensure proactive communication, as well as an innovative program for continual process improvement.
Consumer Services Firm Relies on Outsourcing for Critical Internal Services
When ServiceMaster outsourced its benefits administration to Hewitt Associates, it transformed an inefficient process and implemented improvements without a snag. Their success is due to early decisions in provider selection and management plans - best first steps.
The Impact of Consolidation in Human Resources Outsourcing
What buyers need to know about the wave of consolidation among HR suppliers.
Cheaper, Faster System Development Using Offshore Outsourcing
Unfortunately, many people are out of work in today's economy. The state of New Mexico outsourced its IT to update its unemployment benefits system, making the already painful process much easier.
Outsource Your HR - Because
Running a Business Shouldn't Run You
Small business must have generous benefit packages to keep its talent
from jumping ship. After spending 45 percent of its time on HR functions,
one small business found outsourcing employee benefits cut costs and provided
the services its employees demanded.
Outsourcing Solves
Paralyzing Predicament
State tax rates, FICA payments and address changes are only a few of the headaches inundating a stock option process. Here's the story of what one company gained by outsourcing this administrative nightmare.
Finding Marcus Welby
in Texas
Selecting a health care provider is tricky today because there are so
many choices.
Insuring Success
Taking the pain out of dealing with insurance companies by putting benefits
administration on-line.
The Newest Place To Shop
On The Web: Your Company's HR Department
Today, with the help of Web-based programs, there's very little you can't
find out yourself about your company benefits as long as your Internet
connection is live.
An Electric Relationship
Chip Howden of Southern Company discusses the electric utility holding
company's outsourcing of HR functions.
The Push for Progress
Norman Haighton of the Department of Social Security in the UK discusses
outsourcing politics and innovation.
Three Centuries of Innovation
Tony Williams of the Royal Bank of Scotland is outsourcing the HR function
one piece at a time.
In Pursuit of Best Practices
Consolidating benefits administration through outsourcing.
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